243 Episodes

  1. Ep 82: Charles Edel on John Quincy Adams (New Makers of Modern Strategy #8)

    Published: 7/18/2023

  2. Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Published: 7/11/2023

  3. Ep 80: Holger Afflerbach on How Germany Lost WWI

    Published: 7/4/2023

  4. Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military

    Published: 6/27/2023

  5. Ep 78: Hew Strachan on Clausewitz (New Makers of Modern Strategy #7)

    Published: 6/20/2023

  6. Ep 77: Iskander Rehman on Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin (New Makers of Modern Strategy #6)

    Published: 6/13/2023

  7. Ep 76: Levi Roach on the Normans

    Published: 6/6/2023

  8. Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)

    Published: 5/30/2023

  9. Ep 74: Mark Moyar on Vietnam (New Makers of Modern Strategy #4)

    Published: 5/23/2023

  10. Ep 73: Carter Malkasian on Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency (New Makers of Modern Strategy #3)

    Published: 5/16/2023

  11. Ep 72: Matthew Kroenig on Machiavelli (New Makers of Modern Strategy #2)

    Published: 5/9/2023

  12. Ep 71: John Gaddis on Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #1)

    Published: 5/2/2023

  13. Ep 70: Will Scharf on China’s Fentanyl War on America

    Published: 4/25/2023

  14. Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"

    Published: 4/18/2023

  15. Ep 68: Peter H. Wilson on the Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples

    Published: 4/11/2023

  16. Ep 67: Stephen J. Hadley on George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy

    Published: 4/4/2023

  17. Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy

    Published: 3/28/2023

  18. Ep 65: John Hosler on Jerusalem

    Published: 3/21/2023

  19. Ep 64: Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan on China’s Three Strategies for Taiwan

    Published: 3/14/2023

  20. Ep 63: Steve Kemper on Interwar Japan

    Published: 2/28/2023

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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international incident; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; or the legacy of an important military commander or political leader.   Aaron MacLean is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He has worked as a foreign policy advisor and legislative director to Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and spent seven years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Visit our Substack for episode transcripts Follow along on Instagram